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All our coverage on Skype. Founded in 2003, it provides chat and video call services through desktop and mobile apps. After changing hands through a series of acquisitions, Skype was bought by Microsoft for $8.5 billion in May 2011. The company headquarters are in Luxembourg.

It was only a matter of time. After Skype brought its sleek-but-much-maligned new design to Android and iOS, it's now doing the same for desktop. The company is today opening up a Preview for the new look and features, so it won't replace the standard Skype - for now.
For those ...

Skype's recent redesign may be the source of much divisiveness, but that isn't stopping Microsoft from adding new features. Starting today, you can now send money via PayPal right from your conversations.
It's a shot across the bow to Facebook, which has long support payments via ...

Skype recently updated its mobile app with several new features, attempting to stay relevant to the Snapchat generation. Judging by the reviews, it may have been misguided -- because users (or at least reviewers) loathe this new version of the app. Having been forced to use it myself, ...

Skype is about to get a whole new look and purpose. In this new era of social media, Skype has long felt like a bit of a vestige of the past - useful when you want to have a reliable video call, but probably not your main choice when it comes to your everyday conversations. But now ...

Microsoft and Skype will now help you converse in real time with Japanese speaker -- even if you don't speak Japanese yourself.
Skype announced this week that it was adding Japanese to its real-time translation software, which it introduced in 2014.
In its announcement, Skype ...